Absinthe ingredient

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Somewhat surprised? Yes, Fennel…The bulb, foliage, and seeds of the fennel plant are widely used with culinary and medicinal uses, and, along with the similar-tasting anise is one of the primary ingredients of Absinthe.

Absinthe achieved it’s great great popularity in the late 19th and early 20th century. Artists and intellectuals of those times were the ones especially devoted to Absinthe. Many great works of contemporary art owe their existence to the mystery of the Green Fairy. Great names like Baudelaire, Manet, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso are found among these early adepts of Absinthe.

The primary ingredient in Absinthe is wormwood, due to its psychoactive traits, and is commonly imparted by an infusion (or steeping) much like a tea. The fennel, which imparts an anise like flavor, should be considered a secondary part of the drink, for it is used as in the herbal sachet… the part of the flavoring to get beyond the flavor of wormwood itself. I make a fresh batch of it every year for Halloween. Take care Annet.